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The National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center released a draft request for proposal for the NIH ECS III follow-on, which is expected to be valued at more than $10 billion.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is looking for an executive director for information technology and infrastructure operations. The job pays between $119,554 and $179,700 per year and is open for applications until April 8.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services named new and continuing members to the Health Information Technology Policy and Health Information Technology Standards Committees.

The Department of Health and Human Services plans to launch a virtual desktop infrastructure pilot next month in the Office of the Secretary that will act as a proving ground of sorts for VDI in the rest of the Department, HHS chief information officer Frank Baitman told FedScoop.

Department of Health and Human Services Chief Technology Officer Bryan Sivak discusses the agency’s top innovations of 2012 in a new video posted on healthdata.gov.

Janet Napolitano will continue as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security into President Obama’s second term, the White House confirmed.

Robin Crisp, Senior Advisor for IT to the Associate Director, Food & Drug Administration, is our FedMentor of the week!

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology created an infographic that highlights how electronic health records connect patients to their doctors.

Of note, the president has signed into law $1 trillion in cuts to discretionary spending over the next decade through the Budget Control Act and his current budget calls for $340 billion in entitlement savings from Medicare and Medicaid and $250 billion from other mandatory federal programs, according to the White House.

The program includes a set of online tools aimed at helping health care providers and organizations protect their patients’ protected health information when using mobile devices such as laptops, tablets, and smartphones.

Robin Crisp, senior advisor for IT to the associate commissioner at the Food & Drug Administration, discusses a more mobile FDA in this interview with FedScoopTV.

The Department of Health & Human Services is soliciting public input on the future redesign of Usability.gov.

The Department of Health and Human Services will release the source code for its in-house web survey software, the Voice-of-Consumer Tool, in December.

Federal agencies need to strengthen oversight of the $54 billion it spends annually on operations and maintenance of information technology investment, the Government Accountability Office said in a new report.

With the CIO-SP3 Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs) now awarded, Robert Coen, Acting Director of the National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC), said his office is focused on education and outreach to the entire federal government.

Opportunities exist to improve transparency and oversight of investment risk for information technology at selected federal agencies, the Government Accountability Office said in a new report.

The site includes general information on tobacco, federal and state laws and policies, health statistics and evidence-based methods on how to quit.

The Department of Health and Human Services named its first external class of the HHS Innovation Fellows Program.

Symantec Government Symposium, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says military will “stay just as focused,” 25 HHS apps for better health and Twitter with the election win.

The Department of Health & Human Services has aggregated its mobile applications into one resource to help citizens better access health information on the go.